SOURCE: YEAY Melanie Mohr is a woman on a mission to fix shopping. "It's broken and it doesn't work for the next wave", she told me at Slush in Helsinki. Recently pushing out a global beta, the Founder of the new shopping app YEAY (pron: yay") is rewriting the script for the next generation of…

pexels.com How big did your social media audience become in 2016? How many new platforms did you incorporate into your campaign, and how did you change your content syndication or advertising strategies to reflect the latest trends? If you don’t know the answers to these questions, it means you…

Courtesy of Noémie Are you thinking about buying yourself or loved one a piece of fine jewelry this holiday season? Or anytime for that matter? Before you bust out your Amex card and pay full fare, know that you now have the option to purchase timeless pieces of jewelry for a fraction of the cost…

Six simple tips for entrepreneurs to stay healthy while traveling. Credit: https://pixabay.com/en/users/TheAndrasBarta-2004841/ Reports indicate that 70% of travelers gain weight on the road. This is pretty bad news for entrepreneurs who regularly engage in business travel to keep their businesses…

Source: Unsplash Over the past five years, no segment of the Fintech sector has been as hot as alternative lending. The amount of capital and attention heaped on these companies has been astonishing, with players like Lending Club , CAN Capital , and OnDeck growing at a breakneck pace. Each promised…

Shares of Square Inc. climbed more than 5% Wednesday after the company announced a payments partnership with tech giant Apple Inc. Square SQ, +6.41% Chief Executive Jack Dorsey announced Tuesday evening that the Square Cash app will pair with Apple Pay to allow users to pay at stores using the…

“When I started this company, I knew that in order to survive in an overcrowded space like streetwear, my brand had to be truly different and do something crazy,” said Adam Khafif, who launched his fashion line, Lisn Up Clothing , at age 15. “What Lupe Fiasco is for rap, Lisn Up is for streetwear:…

Even the biggest businesses start out small. The sale last month of Skyscanner, the travel industry start-up, is just another example of British entrepreneurial success, built over a number of years – and defies those who bemoan the country’s failure to produce big winners. But which are the…

(This is the first in a three-part series on analysts’ favorite stocks for 2017. The series begins with large-cap stocks, below, and continues with mid-cap companies Dec. 8 and small-caps Dec. 9.) U.S. stocks have been strong since Election Day on expectations Donald Trump’s administration will spur…

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook once again chose this week to offset negative news with a selective disclosure of limited material information to a single member of the media, a move that flirts with the boundaries of financial regulations and values short-term stock reaction over long-term…

How do you start a tech-enabled company when you’re not a techie? One way -- but not the only way -- is to find a technical co-founder. After Julie Auslander sold her business, she founded a new company, partnering with David Rifkin and with Ken Redler, who as CEO of a web development company had…

Way back in 1996, Netscape introduced what's considered the first bug bounty program, a system that rewards researchers for discovering vulnerabilities in software or hardware. Today, these programs are commonplace, and not just with companies like Google and Facebook. Fiat-Chrysler has one, and now…

Racism has infected the platforms of some of Silicon Valley’s tech darlings, and experts say the business models of the “sharing economy” could keep startups from addressing the issue. Studies have tracked racial discrimination in car-sharing services such as Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc., as…

Last December, Alonzo Knowles struck a deal to sell some 19 scripts he had "acquired" to make a fast $75,000. His buyer turned out to be an undercover agent, and he's now looking at five years in prison. Image: Pexels The 24-year-old Knowles, a resident of the Bahamas, reportedly compromised email…

Most Read Ten years of corporate life were enough for me, and I knew it the day my employer finally replaced a schmoozing but ineffective project manager. The new leader was not focused on popularity, stoking his career, or apple polishing. Instead, he held everyone, even high level stakeholders,…

As technology grows and customers gain power to play a bigger role in their shopping and purchasing experiences, businesses must also join in the digital transformation. According to Vala Afshar, chief digital evangelist at Salesforce, companies need to invest in a CRM (customer relationship…

Amazon.com Inc.’s plans for its most ambitious brick-and-mortar effort yet aim to disrupt an arena seen as an Achilles' heel for Silicon Valley: The $795 billion grocery industry. Amazon released a video Monday about a convenience-store effort called Amazon Go, one of three grocery concepts the…

Adel, a technology incubator for blockchain innovation, dedicated to what its founders from the Czech Republic assert will “deliver a resilient ecosystem for its community” with a mandate to evaluate start-ups, has announced its intention to embark on a month-long crowdfunding exercise from March 1…

Economic sanctions imposed the United States and European Union have hit Russian banks hard . Now it appears as though hackers are making an impact, too. Image: Pexels The Russian Central Bank recently reported about a breach that occurred earlier this year. Using spoofed credentials for one of the…

Rarely do I meet anybody who is completely satisfied with their home Wi-Fi. For all the technological developments we have made since the days when getting on the internet meant sitting through a dial-up connection, home services are often lacking. Not a single top internet provider among Optimum,…

Image: AdobeStock New York has a long, rich history of daring entrepreneurs who have made a tradition out of early adoption of cutting edge business strategies. During a recent trip to the Big Apple, I stumbled upon a surprising small business that got me thinking. Christmas Tree Brooklyn , founded…

Amid diverging reports on Friday that helped fuel a 10% jump in the shares of potential takeout candidate, Pandora Media Inc., one thing is clear: If Pandora does not get acquired, by Sirius XM Holdings Inc. SIRI, -5.60% or another larger media giant, it will have to make history to survive. That’s…

In this photo taken Thursday, May 19, 2016 librarian Chuck McAndrew shows the software, known as Tor network at the Kilton Public Library in Lebanon, N.H. Tor users were targeted by an exploit this week, one sold by a government and private industry contractor called Exodus. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)…

Someone asked me recently what I’d like for the holidays, and as a founder, all my needs are intertwined with my business needs. Here’s a guide to what to give the founder in your life — gifts they REALLY want and need, for each stage of their entrepreneurship. In The Early, Lean Days — Everyday…

As an Angel Investor and a Mentor I spend much of my day helping entrepreneurs in their pursuit of wealth by helping them to grow their companies. But today I was reminded of exactly what true wealth looks like. For more than 25 years he has been buying Christmas presents for children he may never…

Robert Knake, a cybersecurity expert with the the Council on Foreign Relations , has recently released a report calling for the creation of a federally sponsored cyber insurance program. The report argues: Anticipating a catastrophic event in cyberspace, Congress should put in place a federal…

In a prior post, Transferring Your Business To Family? First, Create A Written Roadmap , I suggested that successful transfers of family businesses share five critical elements and discussed the first: a written road map. In the next article, Overcoming The Barriers To Successful Family Business…

Good afternoon, MarketWatch readers. Welcome back — after a much-needed Thanksgiving respite — to another edition of the Swerve newsletter. As President-elect Donald Trump continues to put together a cabinet, the incoming administration has been fairly quiet on a potential approach to AT&T Inc.’s T,…

Infrastructure investment is on the forefront of political agendas around the world. From the spearheaded by China to the , the policy focus is on transportation, telecommunications, utilities and so on around us. The expected surge in such infrastructure projects is estimated to fill a , and around…

The largest gathering of Iranian entrepreneurs, iBridges, is set to begin in Barcelona next week, Dec. 8-10th, but this year, the focus has shifted to the wordwide Iranian diaspora. Kamran Elahian, a legendary serial entrepreneur, organizes iBridges. The first two conferences were held in Berkeley…

Cal Newport is a millennial, a computer scientist, an author, a blogger and a Georgetown professor. Sounds like the kind of guy who’d also be out there tweeting and snapping with the rest of the smartphone-wielding selfie generation. As if! Instead, Newport claims he’s never even had a Facebook FB,…

“I can’t f***ing stand this s***. I almost threw my brand new computer across the room,” says Seoulite Jeonghyun Kwon, an avid online shopper. “[My bank’s] security apps slow my computer to a crawl so I have to uninstall them after every use, and then reinstall them when I want to buy something.”…

Many people are phobic about networking events. But Jayson Gaignard’s by-application-only Mastermind Talks are different. Entrepreneurs gladly paid $7,500 to become one of 150 attendees last May. Gaignard has gotten more than 15,000 applicants for those spots in the past. Friendly and unpretentious,…

Max Dautresme is a master of adjectives. Groovy, daredevil, playful, business industrial 1970s, funky, British: these are just a handful of those he attaches to the projects he’s worked on with his Hong Kong-based design agency, Substance . When he’s making a deep-rooted change for one of those…

Compensation Headaches Ensued in Last-Minute News of Overtime Rule’s Rejection A judge's dismissal of the Labor Department's overtime plan meant unnecessary work and frustration for workers across many industries. November 29, 2016 by